Arising environmental awareness at school through Problem Solving

Abstract

This study, part of a doctoral research, presents the results of development of problem situations involving environmental issues with students of elementary School of São Sebastião do Caí-RS. The problems were created in a continued formation in environmental education and math education provided to math teachers, addressed the theme of water, waste, pollution, wildlife, vegetation, energy, the areas of APP and involved the contents of statistics, rule of three, percentage, proportion, operations with natural numbers, perimeter, area and measures of length, mass and volume. The situations used by teachers participating of the formation and their students, bring in the students the perception of the need to reformulate the habits and care with the environment and also, it was able to arouse interest in mathematics, because it has come to be seen by them, as a useful and indispensable tool that can be used and applied in the resolution of varied themes, giving subsidies for the interpretation of facts that occur around us.